Description

Bring a group of five or more and SAVE $60 EACH on tuition!

REASONS TO ATTEND THIS SEMINAR:

• The presenter is a SLP and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, allowing her to draw on proven
  techniques from both fields.
• Learn to think outside-the-box when planning treatment interventions for your most challenging clients.
• Learn to use functional American Sign Language as a springboard to vocal communication.
• Learn to reduce the prompt-dependency trap that plagues many children with autism.
• First treatment session video is shown 15 minutes into the lecture and numerous video clips
  continue throughout the day.

SEMINAR DESCRIPTION:

Many children with autism and other developmental disabilities live with little or no verbal skills. The inability to communicate even basic requests creates a high level of frustration and can lead to many challenging behaviors, including self-stimulatory and self-injurious behavior.

Presented by a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist who has also become a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, this seminar draws from multiple treatment frameworks to gain insight into reasons that some children make minimal progress and provides specific methods for enhancing the effectiveness of your treatment approaches. The seminar shines a spot light on the challenges in working with children with autism and other developmental disabilities and provides outside-the-box teaching strategies to reduce problem behavior, to promote functional communication, and to increase early vocal skills in this population.

Building on current treatment methods from the field of Speech-Language Pathology as viewed through the eyes of a behavior analyst, this workshop provides real world examples of practical and easily implemented interventions that can be applied across contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the use of Skinner's behavioral classification of language, which refocuses and refines the teaching of functional communication. Methods for effective transfer of skills from imitative to spontaneous requesting will be presented. Procedures to systematically shape functional verbal and/or manual communication will also be addressed, including utilization of the K & K Sign to Talk teaching tools and Kaufman's system of a hierarchy of vocalizations (word shells).

Focused on practical strategies, dozens of video clips illustrating the treatment strategies are integrated throughout the day. Past participants have described this dynamic seminar as inspirational and empowering.

SEMINAR TUITION:

• $189 individual
• $179 per person for groups of two, three or four
• $129 per person for groups of five or more
• $119 parent (no CEUs & must register by phone or mail)
• Groups must register together. Please contact NSS at 888.337.3866 for more details.
• Late Fee: Add $20 if registering less than two weeks prior to seminar date.
• Registration Cancellation Policy

For more information on Tamara Kasper and information on
The Center for Autism Treatment please click here.

Cancellation Policy & Late Registration

Outline

7:30-7:50     Check In and Onsite Registration (Coffee and Tea)

7:55-8:00     General Seminar Information

8:00-9:30     Impacting Verbal Language Through Application of Verbal Behavior: Rationale and Strategies

9:30-9:45     Break

9:45-10:30   Strategies To Reduce Problem Behavior and Promote Verbal Language

10:30-11:15  Building Motivators To Encourage Communication

11:15-12:15  Lunch on Own

12:15-1:45   Applying Kaufman's Word Shell Approach To Shape Speech Production Skills
                  in Children with Autism

1:45-2:00     Break

2:00-3:30     Utilizing Sign Language and Vocal Language Training (K & K Sign to Talk): Evidence-Based
                   Practice To Support Methodology

3:30-3:45     Final Questions

        3:45     Adjourn and Sign Out

Speaker Profile

Tamara S. Kasper, M.S., CCC-SLP, BCBA, is a Speech-Language Pathologist with 20 years experience working with children with challenging behaviors. Tamara’s commitment to the children she serves led her to pursue treatment methods outside the field of Speech-Language Pathology. Under the mentorship of renowned Behavior Analyst Dr. Vincent Carbone and his protégé, Tamara became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. She has also completed advanced training in application of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, Greenspan’s DIR approach, and Kaufman’s strategies for apraxia of speech.

Tamara is a frequently invited international lecturer, having treated clients and trained professionals in England, Ireland, Greece, Australia and other countries. She enthusiastically shares her unique approaches and her outside-the-box intervention techniques that are successful in building functional verbal behavior for children on the autism spectrum.

Tamara is also Director of The Center for Autism Treatment near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a center which provides personalized ABA intervention plans for children as well as consulting services and workshops to autism treatment teams in the United States and abroad. Tamara’s publications include the K&K Sign to Talk materials and Speak with Sign. She was the 2008 recipient of the Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Association’s Clinical Achievement Award.

Location & Lodging

Seminar Location:

Alamance Regional Medical Center
Grand Oaks Building
1238 Huffman Mill Road
Burlington, NC 27215

Phone: 336-538-7000
Click for Directions

Seminar to be held in the Grand Oaks Building.
Parking is FREE in front of building.

Lodging:

Best Western Burlington
770 Huffman Mill Road
Burlington, NC 27215

Phone: 336-584-0151
Click for Directions

The Best Western is 0.7 miles from the Medical Center. 
Request the Alamance Medical rate of $79. 

Intended Audience

• BCBA
• Teach/Educ
• Parent
• OT
• SLPA
• SLP

Accreditation

This program is offered for .6 CEUs (Intermediate level; Professional area).

BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS: Presenter is an ACE Provider through the BACB. Seminar is offered for 7.5 hours.

AOTA: Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. #4095.

 

Past Participant Comments

"I attended your training in Ohio on Friday. As a SLP I am currently working with several students with Autism in a school system in Kentucky. It is just Tuesday and I have implemented some of the strategies that you shared, it is already working. Today, two of my students achieved goals that we have been working on for months. It was one of those moments that you work so hard for, I had to fight back the tears of joy. I just wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge with me and making me a better SLP for my students."

"Engaging speaker, well organized, obviously passionate about the subject matter. Excellent combination of research and personal experiences."  

"Perfect balance of SLP/ABA.  Tamara embodies a perfect clinician who delivers speech and behavior goals simultaneously."

"Loves what she does...She's infectious!!   Her level of expertise and energy make the listener want to start tomorrow using her techniques."   

"This is my third conference on Autism in a year's time and the only one I am walking away with functional treatment techniques. Thank you for showing less than perfect sessions so we know how to build/learn from our mistakes and what we may be doing wrong."

"I can hardly wait to try some of these techniques with my kids whom I've always found so difficult to work with and relate to, in a way that encourages learning and acquisition of truly functional skills."

"This was one of the best conferences I have been to; you can transfer these techniques to many disorders, not just autism."

"I learned alternative techniques when children do not respond as typically expected."

"The entire presentation was directly related to real practice needs in my field."

"Ms. Kasper was open and highly knowledgeable! Excellent presentation."

"The way you suggested integrating sign and pecs into the classroom – great resources – thanks!"

"Seeing what to do in certain situations and not just hearing what is good in theory."

"Wow! You are amazing! How fun it would be to work with you."

"Great videos – I learned a lot from them."